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Article: Are you ready for Nashik? Indian wine makes its way to the world stage.
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- Wines & Vines
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- November 1, 2003
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In 1988, Amod Chopra, a Berkeley, Calif., importer of groceries and beer from India, decided to try bringing in wine from the subcontinent, a sparkler under the Omar Khayyam label. It took him 12 years to unload that one container on the broad-minded, wine-loving Bay Area. Now he's betting on a different horse, Sula Vineyards, India's first entry into international-grade winemaking--and his client list now includes some of the snazziest white-tablecloth restaurants in Northern California.
Sula is the brainchild of an Indian-born, Stanford-educated Silicon Valley escapee, Rajeev Samant. He's hardly unique in moving from high tech to fine wine; the twist is doing ...